
„The shortest distance between two people is a smile.“
— Victor Borge Danish and US-American comedian and musician 1909 - 2000
Variante: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker
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From his autobiography Smilet er den korteste afstand
Fuente: Victor Borge, "Smilet er den korteste afstand (The Smile is the Shortest Distance)"
Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker
From his autobiography Smilet er den korteste afstand
„The shortest distance between two people is a smile.“
— Victor Borge Danish and US-American comedian and musician 1909 - 2000
Variante: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
„A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.“
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Fuente: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
„The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
„The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.“
— Theodor W. Adorno, libro Minima Moralia
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
— Grace Paley American writer and activist 1922 - 2007
"The Floating Truth"
— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987
Fuente: Anthony De Mello : Writings (1999), p. 8
Contexto: A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: "You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story."
— Helen Thomas American author and journalist 1920 - 2013
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
„A space representing the shortest distances for messages to travel…“
— James Grier Miller biologist 1916 - 2002
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
„In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.“
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
Fuente: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
— Richard Carlson Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker 1961 - 2006
Fill your Life with Love (2006)
— Paul Churchland Canadian philosopher 1942
Paul M. Churchland (1996) The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey Into the Brain. MIT Press, 1996. p. 3
„I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places“
— Tennessee Williams, El zoo de cristal
Variante: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Fuente: The Glass Menagerie
— George W. S. Trow American writer 1943 - 2006
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827
The Smile, st. 1
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
— Eliezer Yudkowsky American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher 1979
Beware of Other-Optimizing (April 2009) http://lesswrong.com/lw/9v/beware_of_otheroptimizing/